Bearing for supporting radiators in automobile-frames.



PATENTED MAR. '24, 1908.

P. W. NOBLE. BEARING FOR SUPPORTING RADIATORS IN AUTOMOBILE FRAMES.

APPLICATION FILLED NOV. 23, 1907.

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RCY WARREN NOBLE, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR TO ()EARLES A. SINGER, 0? LARGE- MONT, NEW PIORK, AND HENRY U. PALMER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed. November 23, rear. seat in. wares.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Plano/r WARREN NO- BLE, a citisen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a'resident of the borough of M enhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful. Inlprovements in Bearings for Supporting-Radiators in Automobile-Frames, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bearings for supf orting radiators in automobile frames, and lies specially in View an improved form of trunnion hearing by which the radiator supported, and which is adapted to relieve the radiator of undue strains through the distortion of the automobile frame.

With the above and many other objects in View, the invention contemplates providing an automobile frame with one member of a universal bearing, and a radiator supporting saddle truhnion with the other member of a universal bearing, mounted thereon so as to .ent invention a plied thereto.

be longitudinally .xnovable on the trunnion shaft. I

The structure involved in the present invention is susceptible to various 1nodifications, but a preferred embodiment of the same is shown in the accompanyingdraw ings, wherein" Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the frame of an automobile showing the pros- Fig. 2 is a sectional viewt ereof. r

In the drawings, wherein like'cha'racters of reference designate-corresponding parts, A.

indicates the front end portion of one of the sides. of an automobile frame, the upper flange B of which forms a support for the up standing circular bearing box 0. The bearing box C has preferably castintegrallyg 0; which are each rovided with openings which register wit 1. similar openings in the supporting flange B for the reception of fastenmg bolts (Z, (i, said bolts being retained in their fastening position by means of thenuts d, d, which bear upon washers d d mounted on said bolts and resting on the ends of the base.

The interior of the bearing box. is provided with a threaded portion E and a bearing seat F which are s aced apart and formed at opposite ends 0 said bearing box, the bearing seat being projected beyond the plane of the edges of the threads, and having its bearing in form.

surface slightly cont-a red a function of All :h will be p The radial rsupporting: ably, but not necessarily, of eloh ated diamond shape, the lower portion u of w which is slightly inclined and terminates in an inturned end which 1; ins base flange G for theradiator H. tie interest -'ate portion of the supporting saddle is provided with a laterally extending trumiion I which carries a longitudinal movable bearing ring J, the bearing surfabe of which is spherical sition s iown in Fig. 2 of the'drawings,c circular (ZOIlCiHQEd hearing will be formed within thebearing box. A soft washer of leather or other similar material'llt may he placed around the neck K." of the bearing cone K, so as to make the bearing dust proof" and yet permit of an. adjustment of the cone K to take up any Wear in the'bearing.

' By rcierenceto Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be observed; that the surface of the retaining cone h: does not eirtend far enough within-the hearing box C to abut against the bearing scat F of said box, a

space being left there between which, in conjunction with a recess L formed in the box provides for an unobstructed circulation of a lubricant to all movable parts of the bear:- in and for storing a considerable quantity of ubricant in the'bearing box.

To assist in supporting the radiator in the proper upright position, theconncctions between the bottom and top of the radiator and theusual rigid water pipes communieating with, bl13-(3"l1I1(lQ1S and pump, are in the form of flexi )lfl hose whici it has not been considered necessary to show in the drawings.

' From the foregoing description it Will-be understood that a distortion of thefrarne will not produce any undue strains upon the direction in its" bearing box.

5 Having] described my invent1on,'what I i' .clairn as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is: 1 i I 1, In combinlationn an automobile framev marrying a bearing boxprovided-With a bearmg seat, a radiator supporting saddle carry- 'ing a trunnion provide jface, and a retaining bearing coneadapted I to engage with said bearing box and the said surface ofvthe trunnion. a

2. Incombination, an automobile frame carrying a bearing box provided with a cirfcular concaved bearing seat, a radiator sup porting saddle carrying'a trunnion provided with-a c'onvexedbearin'g surface, and a retaining bear' said .bearing 2 ex and aving a concaved bearing surface' 1 3. Incombination, an automobile frame carryinga' bearing box provided with a circula'rbearin seat, a radiator supporting saddie provide :with a bearing trunnion, and a retainin'g" tzearing cone ada ted vto engage ,withysald'bearing'box and eing provided bearing surface cooperating with the so f idh g Seat: I

with a bearing sur-' cone ada ted to engage with 4. A universal bearing su port for radiators consisting ofan uprig t bearing box carrying one member of a bearing surface, a

retaining cone adapted to enga e with said bearing box and providedwit a surface forming the other member of the bearing surface, and a radiator supporting saddle provided with a trunnion having a bearing ing saddle having longitudinally movable i universal trunnion bearing connections with the frame. v I

6. The combinationwith an. automobile frame and a radiator, of a radiator supporting saddle, having longitudinally movable,

universal trunnion bearmg connections with the frame, and flexible connections between the upper and lower parts of the radiator and the engine. i

Signed at New,York city, in the county.

and State of New York, this 20th day of 1907. P. WARREN NOBLE.

' November A. D.

" Witnesses:

R. STANLEY BOLGER, BENEDICT A. DREvEs. 

